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BARREL.

No; 412,975. 17 Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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THOMAS L. NORMAN, OF WVEST POINT, GEORGIA.

A BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,975, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed July 1, 1889. Serial No. 816,240. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. NORMAN, of Vest Point, in the county of Troup and a State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barrels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in barrels especially adapted for shipping flour, meal, grits, starch, sugar, and like material, and has for its object to provide a barrel of simple, light, durable, and economic 1nanu-' faoture, capable of being folded in a small compass when emptied and returned for refilling.

A further object of the invention is to provide a barrel which when shipped full may be closely packed.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyingv drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the barrel partly in section, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The bodylO of the barrel is cylindrical and consists of a preferably seamless strip of water-proof fabric, to the lower end of which a head 11 is secured, ordinarily made of wood. This head is attached by causing the periphery of the same to contact with the inner face of the body. A flexible band or hoop 12, of practically the same material as the body, is slipped over the latter, and when opposite the lower head the band or hoop and body are securely fastened to the head by drivingthrough them into the latter nails, staples, or equivalent devices 13. After the body of the barrel has been filled a second head 14 is firmly pressed down within the body upon the material, and the upper surplus end of the body is folded over upon the upper head, as shown at 15 in Fig. 1. A

second upper and outer head 16 is now placed upon the intermediate head 14. to a contact with the folded end of the body. The upper outer head is of a slightly-greater diameter than the intermediate head, and is secured thereto by screws 17, as shown in Fig. 2. An upper band or hoop 18, of material similar to the lower hoop, is secured to the upper end of the barrel, this upper hoop being slightly greater in width than the combined thickness of the two upper heads. The hoop 18 is firmly secured to the upper head by nails, screws, or their equivalents, and to both the upper and lower head by staples 19, as shown in Fig. 1.

To open the barrel, the staples and screws '17 are withdrawn and the upper outer head removed, whereupon the intermediate head may be expeditiously and conveniently lifted.

The barrel may be provided with one or more intermediate hoops, if desired, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a barrel or package formed of fabric and having its upper edge turned inward, separalole and removable inner and outer rigid head-sections between which said inturned portion extends, and removable fastenings extending down through the outer head-section and the inturned :portion into the inner headsection, thereby connecting the outer head-sections together and tothe said inturned portion, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a barrel having its upper edge turned in ward, separable and removable inner and outer head-sections between which said inturned portion is clamped, a hoop or band covering the joint between and secured to both of said two sections, substantially as set forth.

3. In a barrel, the combination, with a fabric body having a head fixed at one end, of an upper intermediate head and upper outer head, a hoop or band secured to the upper outer head, and staples uniting the intermediate and outer head and the body, substantially as shown and described.

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4. In a barrel, the combination, with a staples uniting the two upperheads and body seamless fabric body, a head fixed at one at the sides, substantially as shown and deend, and an upper intermediate head upon scribed. which the upper end of the body is folded,

5 of an upper outer head united to the upper face of the intermediate head, a band or hoop attached to the upper outer head, and

THOMAS L. NORMAN. Witnesses:

T. J. EDDY, GEO. W. WHITE. 

